Using adobe reader SDK to search in PDF

Hi,
can someone please help me, iam trying to create a program (using c#) that displays a pdf, and searches for words inside the pdf file, the search iam programming is in arabic language (which is completely different than english).
i tried to download the sdk, but the problem is that all the search samples needs the acrobat standard or professional.
i saw something about the plugins and javascript, iam good at javascript, but did not now how to implement the javascript code in c# program.
by the way, is creating free programs that uses adobe reader as a COM object needs a license? or it is free to distribute?
Thanks very much.

>i tried to download the sdk, but the problem is that all the search samples needs the acrobat standard or professional.
I think that's right. Think of the SDK as primarily a marketing tool
for Acrobat and the position may be simpler to see.
>
>i saw something about the plugins and javascript, iam good at javascript, but did not now how to implement the javascript code in c# program.
You need Acrobat Professional to run JavaScript from an external
program.
You could write plug-ins but would need to obtain a special license to
write plug-ins for Adobe Reader; Acrobat is needed for development.
>
>by the way, is creating free programs that uses adobe reader as a COM object needs a license? or it is free to distribute?
Adobe Reader only offers the AxAcroPDF interface. You can freely
distribute code that uses this interface.
Note that I am not saying that you can freely distribute Adobe Reader:
there are some restrictions on this.
Aandi Inston

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